Display-card.



- PATENTED AUG. ll, 1908. M. LIGHTER.

I DISPLAY GARD.

APPLIOATION FILED APB.. 5, 1905.

the card; and

MALVIN LIGHTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DISPLAY-CARD.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed April 5, 1905.

Patented Aug. 11, 1908.

Serial No. 253,913.

To all whom it 'may concern:

-Be it lrnown that l, MALvrN LIGHTER, a the stri citizen oi the United States, residing at New agonal to be attached to the card the tendency oi will be to bend at its ends on a diine running through the two outside York, in the county and State of New York, points of attachment of the strip to the body 5 have invented certain new and useful Imrovements in Display-Cards, of which the iollowing is a specification.

Figure 1 is a jface view oi the display card with a comb attached; Fig. 2 a face view of Fig. 3 a similar view of a slightly different form of card. My invention relates to which are provided with means display cards Jfor attaching combs and similar articles so that said articles may be displayed in an attractive manner.

rlhe main object of the invention is to provide a display card to which the articles to be exhibited may be readily attached and 2o from which the same may be readily detached, the means Jfor attaching said articles being integral retaining strips of peculiar shape, whereby, when the article to be secured is inserted under said strips the body of the card will not be distorted.

A further object of the invention is to so construct the retaining strips that they will be longer drawn between the two points of connection between said retaining strip and the bottom, the object of which will appear hereinafter.

Another object of the invention is to so shape the retaining strip that it will tend to bend on a line oblique with respect to the body of the strip, said oblique line being substantially on a straight line between the points oi attachment of the strip to the body ot the card, whereby the stri will have a tendency to return to its norma position and to thereby exert a slight clamping or retaining pressure on the article between the strip and the body oi the card.

Referring to the various parts by numerals, 1 designates the body of the card and 2 the retaining strips. As shown in the drawing each retaining strip consists of the longitudinal member 3 and the transverse member 4, said members uniting to Jform a right angled retaining strip whose ends are integral with the body of the card.

The article to be attached to the card is passed under this retaining strip parallel with the inner shorter side of one arm or member oi the strip, that is, as near the free point 5 of the strip as possible. When the stri is raised above the card by the article whic is oi the card as indicated by the dotted lines a in Fig. 2. It will be noted that this will cause a slight twisting of the strip at its ends thereby giving more or less spring to said strip, it being obvious that when said strip is so bent it will always tend to return to its normal position within the plane oi the body of the card. It is also to be observed that the retaining strip is longer than a straight line between the points of attachment of the two ends of the strip to the body of the card, and that, therefore, said strip may be bent upward and away from the body of the card without in the least distorting the card.

As the retaining strip will swing away from the body of the card, bending on the straight line extending between the two outside points of attachment oi the strip to the body of the card, as indicated by the dotted lines a in Fig. 2, the points 5 will move the greatest distance away from the body oi the card and the device to be attached to the card can more readily be slipped under the retaining strip near said Jfree point. lt will, therefore be seen that l not only provide a retaining strip which may be bent up or away Jfrom th body of the card without in the least dis torting it, but which will exert a retaining pressure on said article to hold it under th retaining strip.

The peculiar Jform of retaining strip is pai ticularly adapted for use in securing combs t cards and more especially for securing tl large back combs and side combs so unive sally used by ladies in dressing their hai As shown in Fig. 1, when used for this pu pose, two retaining strips are arranged at suitable distance apart to receive the gua teeth 6 oi the comb. These guard teeth a passed under the strips, their inner edges l ing arranged close to the outside edges of t longitudinally extending members of' i strips, as cle arly shown in said figure. It v be noted that by this arrangement the coi is prevented from moving laterally on card, the longitudinal members of the si serving as stops to prevent such lateral mo ment. By this arrangement the guard are passed under the most available par the retaining strip, that is, that part whic Jfurthest remove from the main body of card, so that all danger oi inarring or bri ing the retaining strips at their points of consaid arms when an article is passed under nection With the body of the card is avoided. them shall be oblique with respect to the From the foregoing it will be obvious that sides of the stri my peculiar shaped retaining strip has three Having thus escribed my invention, what important functions, first, it provides a strip I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters which is longer than the distance on a straight Patent, is

line between the two points of attachment of 1. The combination of a display card prothe strip to the card, so that said stri may be vided with two retaining strips each adapted lifted or bent away from the card without in to be engaged by the article to be secured to the least distorting it; second, the strip has a said card, each strip being' formed of two tendency to return to its normal position arms disposed at right angles, the ends of within the plane of the card, and, therefore, said arms being integral with the body of the exerts a retaining pressure on the article to card and the angle of the strip being free be held; and when two of these-strips are from the card, said strip being adapted to be strips may be so placed with respect to each arms, one arm of one strip being parallel with other that the corresponding arms of said t e corresponding arm of the other strip and strips will act as sto s to prevent any lateral the other arms of said strips being in alinellacement of the article ment, and a comb having its outer teeth subheld by hem. stantially parallel with the parallel members The adv er the arms that with this form of retaining strip over the old are in alinement and engaging the face ofthe y two parallel slits or cuts in the card are 2. In a display card the combination of a o vous. As shown in Fig. 3, the strip`7 is card having formed therein two retaining equal in length to the distance on a straight strips adapted to be engaged by the end teeth line between the two points of attachment of of a comb, each of said strips being longer than the strip and the body of the card. The rethe distance on a straight line between the sult of this is that when any article is forced two ends of said strip and being adapted to under said stri the strip is bent upward or bend on a line oblique to the sides of said away from the ody of the card and the card strip, the adjoining portions of said strips beis necessarily bent inward or downward ing parallel with each other and a comb eniway from the stri This is necessarily so gaging said strips, the engaged teeth being inless, of course, t ie strip 7 be of elastic masubstantially parallel with the parallel 1por- 80 erial. It is this bending of the body of the tions of the strips whereby the comb wi lard which distorts it and makes it im ossidetachably connected to the card without le to attach articles to the bottom of oxes distorting the card. 1 t is manner without seriously distorting Iii testimony whereof, I have signed my he box. T e present invention is designed f name to this speciiication in the presence of articularly for use in attaching articles to two subscribing witnesses, this 3d day of ie inside surface of the bottom of a display April 1905. x where it is necessary that the box shall )t be distorted.

t is one of the im ortant features of the Witnesses: vention to arrange he arms of the strips in C. L. HORACK,

ch manner that t e line of the bend of L. JACOBS.`

MALVIN LIGHTER. 

